Well she admits it was hard seeing the new wood splitter move into our farm. You see Dorothee has been splitting all of our firewood for the last many years and me being 74 and slowing down with the farming thought it was a nice gesture to see if this new addition would help her. I know she says she is still 39 but I thought at least one of us was getting too old to chop all the wood for the winter months. Yes she complained that in the time the splitter moved back and forth she could have split 5 logs by hand. Emotionally it was hard for her but gradually she softened to the idea of letting the log splitter do at least some of the splitting. And it did not take long for her to be splitting most of the logs with that machine. I think the thing that pleased her most was the simplicity of operating it.
As for me I’ll just keep farming with my draft horses knowing that I look forward to a warm fire and a hot shower at the end of the day.
mat
— Mat Resell
